Game Time: 8:40 pm ET, Tuesday, July 12th, 2022

Venue: Coors Field, Colorado Rockies

Where to Watch:  MLB.tv

DraftKings: Moneyline:  Padres -135, Rockies +115; O/U 11

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Padres: 49-38, 2nd place, NL West

Rockies: 38-48, 5th place (last) NL West

It happened again!  The San Diego Padres got not just spanked, but humiliated… in their last game.  The San Francisco Giants handed the Padres a 12-0 loss.  The Giants are ranked below the Padres in the NL West.  The Colorado Rockies meanwhile won their last game against the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2.  I hope I don’t have to point out that the surging Rockies have had the number of the sinking Padres all season long!  Game 1 of this series is Monday night… this prediction covers Game 2 of the matchup.  We will look at the pitching matchup and make a quick easy betting prediction.  

A wild National league matchup!  The San Diego Padres are 2nd in the NL West.  They look tough, they look strong, they have stars…. And the 5th place Colorado Rockies have feasted on the Padres several times.  That doesn’t make a lot of sense … but it is what happened.  The last place Rockies have what it takes to beat the Padres… The last place Rockies also have what it takes to sweep the 2nd place Padres. When the Rockies play the Padres you have to remember that within the division even last place teams have been built to respond to the other teams in that division.  They may not have enough potency or reliability to take it to the rest of the league… but they have been built in response to the others.  So where does this leave us?.... In a pitching matchup and quick moneyline bet.

The San Diego Padres have won only 4 of their last 10 games.  It has been a stretch where the 1st place Dodgers not only pulled away, but kept pulling away… and away and away. The Padres went 2-1 against the San Francisco Giants, 0-2 against the lowly Seattle Mariners, 1-3 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and 1-0 against the Arizona Diamondbacks.  The Padres have what it takes to contend and to win… until you look at their injury list.  You see the names Fernando Tatis JR, Jurickson Purifar, Beaty, Meyers,.... Kim… and you start to wonder: What do the Padres have left?.... Not much is the answer.

The Colorado Rockies have won 4 of their last ten games.  Not great, but for a last place team it does show the basis for a fight.  They went 2-1 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, they got swept 0-3 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-1 against the Arizona Diamondbacks, and 0-1 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.  The Rockies are a bad team.  A sad team.  Except they do have an unusual penchant for beating the San Diego Padres… and at this moment the Padres are struggling. 

 

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The Padres are 15th in runs per game with 4.45 per game, 17th in batting average with .241, 15th in OBP with .316.

 

The Rockies are 14th in runs pre game with 4.45 per game, 2nd in batting average with .258, and 7th in batting average with .322.

 

The Padres are 5th in ERA with 3.60, 5th in whip with 1.17, and 2nd in fielding errors with a low, low 32 on the season so far.

 

The Rockies are 27th in team ERA with 4.99, 27th in WHIP with 1.44, and 29th in errors with 59 big ones on the season so far.

 

 

Our prediction for Tuesday, July 12th is…  Padres 5 - Rockies 2

 

The Padres should win this game AFTER losing Game 1.  The pitching matchup heavily favors the Padres… and they will be do to take out frustrations against a lowly team like the Rockies.  

 

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The Padres are 30-24 as a favorite of -110 or higher this season.

The Rockies are 26-40 as an underdog of +100 or higher.

Padres: SS Fernando Tatis Jr (wrist) Out, 1B Matt Beaty (shoulder) Out indefinitely, LF Will Meyer (knee) Out

 

Rockies: 1B C Cron (wrist) Out ** SS J. Iglesias (head) Quest ** LF S Bouchard (oblique) Out ** 

 

Padres: RHP Mike Clevinger 2-1, 3.34 ERA, 36 strikeouts in 35 innings pitched.  1.17 WHIP.  Good numbers for a 31 year old guy with a big career win loss record of 46-24.

Rockies: LHP Austin Gomber, 4-7, 6.46 ERA, 59 strikeouts in 78 innings pitched.  1.45 WHIP. “Big G” is having a bad season… he also should be nicknamed “Gomer Pile” no matter what his teammates think of him.  Starting him is the equivalent of raising the white flag.

Padres: LF Jurickson Purifar, 3B Manny Machado, 2B Jake Cronenworth, DH Luke Voit, 1B Eric Hosmer, RF Nomar Mazara, C Austin Nola, CF Trent Grisham, SS CJ Abrams.

 

Rockies: 1B Connor Joe, DH Khris Bryant, RF Charlie Blackmon, 2B Brendan Rodgers, CF Randal Gruchuk, LF Yonathan Daza, C Elias Diaz, 3B Elehuris Montero, SS Garrett Hampson

 

Padres: Bob “we are in the cusp” Melvin

 

Rockies: Bud “ the ol’ BB” Black

 

Partly Cloudy, 83*, Humidity 42%, Wind 10 mph.  Chance of precipitation 20%.